Post-Summit Workshop C - Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Maximising Your CSR Reporting Through Global Report Initiative (GRI) |
Workshop Timings: Registration and coffee will be at 08.00. The workshop will commence at 08.30 and conclude at 14.30 with appropriate breaks for refreshments. Lunch will be served at 14.30 following close of day.
1. Starting With Purpose: The Purpose And Benefits Of Reporting
Why do many companies initially choose to undertake sustainability reporting? What unexpected benefits do they discover along the way? Why do the world’s leading sustainability companies issue sustainability reports? What added benefits do they gain?
Learn more about maximising benefits of sustainability reporting including three main
areas of benefit:
- Understanding the impacts of sustainability trends on business strategy, and
clarifying company sustainability / CSR strategy
- Performance gains (what gets measured gets managed)
- Gains in the quality of relationship, increased trust, and overall reputation gains
2. CSR Reporting Using The GRI-G3 Standard – The Basics
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI-G3) is the best practice guideline for CSR reporting. It aims to make non-financial reports as clear and comparable as annual financial accounts. Using practical examples from GRI reports around the world, this workshop will provide a detailed description of how the GRI works, what data is required and how you can meet the challenges of this new framework.
• The Global Reporting Initiative (G3) Guidelines – The International Gold Standard
• Defining report content: What aspects of CSR activities should you report and
how?
• Defining report quality: Materiality in CSR reporting – what does it mean?
• Setting the boundaries and scope of the report
• Structuring a CSR report for maximum impact
3. Advanced CSR Reporting To GRI-G3 Standards
This session describes the central building blocks of the GRI framework – disclosure on management approach, the standard reporting protocols, understanding performance indicators – where to find the data and how to present it. The special reporting requirements for specific industrial sectors will also be examined and how the level of reporting can be measured using the GRI Application Level indicators.
• Disclosure on Management Approach – DMA
- Economic
- Social: (Labour Practices and decent work; human rights; Society – community;
Product responsibility)
- Environmental
• Understanding performance indicators
• Sector supplements
• Application levels
4. That’s The Content – But What Is The Process?
• Who leads this process? What is the level of involvement of senior management?
Do we create a sustainability team? If so, what authority does it have? Do we use
external support? How often do we meet? Who meets?
• Who gets involved when new types of issues, strategies and indicators need to be
established? Who oversees their implementation?
• What are the time demands put on people? What are the costs involved?
• When should we start working on this? How long will it take?
• What am I really getting myself into?
• What should be done, and what should we expect, after the report is released?
5. The Final Checklist - Maximising Credibility
The final session shows how to maximise credibility to truly achieve a world-class report. It covers the requirements and approaches to auditing and verification. It also comes back to how the CSR report can be used as the basis for continuous enhancement of a company’s business and sustainability strategy. Some of the best and worst reports available in the market with be shared.
• Types of independent assurance and their associated value-added
• Using the GRI process to enhance opportunities for improving CSR performance
management
• Incorporating target setting / commitments
• Effective methods for promoting your GRI report
Case studies (good and bad) will be shared throughout the workshop.
"I think it is the best CSR summit in Asia."
Ghassan El Assi
Compensation and Benefits Manager
Dubai Properties, UAE
About Your Expert Workshop Leader
Darin Rovere, President of Sustainability Excellence Arabia, is an expert in corporate sustainability management. Darin works with senior management teams to identify the strategic implications of trends in sustainable development, and to revise and enhance corporate strategies, operations, and products and services accordingly. Darin works extensively with key standards including AccountAbility1000 and GRI Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting. Several of his clients have ranked #1 in the world for sustainability management in their sector. Clients have included the first two companies in the Arab world to issue “GRI-checked” Sustainability reports. Darin has served on the advisory councils of numerous corporate responsibility initiatives and has spoken widely on sustainability.